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Lab as a Service

Compose Your Cloud Automatically with Few Clicks

Parker Berberian, UNH

Fatih Degirmenci, Ericsson

Jack Morgan, Intel

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Agenda

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  • What is OPNFV?

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  • Challenges

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  • The Solution

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  • Walkthrough / Demo

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Open Platform for NFV

OPNFV facilitates the development and evolution of NFV components across various open source ecosystems.

Through system level integration, deployment and testing, OPNFV creates a reference NFV platform to accelerate the transformation of enterprise and service provider networks.

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What does OPNFV Actually do?

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Resulting in lots of combinations...

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Challenges

  • It is not straightforward to bring entire stack up
    • Especially with the number of combinations we have
    • Resource intensive - cannot be done on a developer’s laptop

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  • Allocating resources statically
    • Not scalable
    • Inefficient and under utilization
    • Bottleneck for development and releases

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Community Labs

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Several community labs

  • Geographical located
  • Standard configurations
  • Hosted by member organizations

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�Multiple roles…

  • CI Production (OPNFV releases)
  • Testing
  • Development

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Pharos

Pharos Specification

  • Jump server - virtualized OpenStack/OPNFV installer
  • Controller/Compute nodes – for high availability
  • Network topology – LOM, Admin, Public, Private and Storage
  • Remote management – OpenVPN + SSH access

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Hardware requirements

  • Intel and ARM processor
  • Minimum 32GB RAM
  • 1TB HDD – OS and additional software/tools
  • 1TB HDD – CEPH object store
  • 100GB SSD – CEPH journal

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Solution

Lab as a Service (LaaS)

  • Automated provisioning, deployment, and verification
    • Configurable to fit user’s needs
    • Runs on baremetal servers

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  • Allocating resources dynamically
    • Use resources as they are needed
    • Scalable for development and releases

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Architecture of LaaS

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UNH IOL Lab

  • 38 intel servers
    • 512 GB RAM
    • 1TB SSD Storage

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  • 14 arm servers
    • 256 GB RAM
    • 1TB SSD Storage

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  • All 10G networking, with 40G interconnect between switches

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Deployment Overview

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Dashboard

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Booking Creation

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Stackstorm Automation Server

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FOG - Free Open-source Ghost

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Partclone

Disk Imaging and Cloning

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Post Installation Actions

  • User management

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  • VPN Access

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  • IPMI and console access for developers
    • iLO / Integrated Lights Out
    • BMC/ Baseboard Management Controller

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  • Email notification to user

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On Booking End

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  • All accounts deleted

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  • Server shut down

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  • Server made available for another booking

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Roadmap

  • We have brought our MVP to production

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  • Dynamic POD allocation

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  • Automatic deployment of OPNFV

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  • Multi-user bookings

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  • Snapshotting

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Questions?

https://labs.opnfv.org

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https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/INF/Lab-as-a-Service+at+the+UNH-IOL

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